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Stability properties of phase transition layers in the diffuse ISM revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2015

Jennifer M. Stone ,
Shu-ichiro Inutsuka  and
Ellen G. Zweibel
Jennifer M. Stone
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Aichi 464-8602, Japan email: stone@nagoya-u.jp
Shu-ichiro Inutsuka
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Aichi 464-8602, Japan email: stone@nagoya-u.jp
Ellen G. Zweibel
Affiliation:
Departments of Phyics and Astronomy and Center for Magnetic Self-Organization, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 475 N Charter Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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Abstract

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In a thermally bistable medium, cold, dense gas is separated from warm, rarified gas by thin phase transition layers, or fronts, in which radiative heating/cooling, thermal conduction, and convection of material are balanced. While these fronts have received only scant attention in the literature, and are not resolved by most current numerical simulations, they have been shown to have important ramifications for transport processes and structure formation in the diffuse interstellar medium. Here, we discuss calculations of their hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic stability properties.

Keywords

hydrodynamicsISM: structureinstabilities(magnetohydrodynamics:) MHDmethods: numerical
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 10 , Highlights H16: Highlights of Astronomy , August 2012 , pp. 611
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2015 

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